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Smoothwall maintenance

August 16, 2015 By Richie Leave a Comment

Doing some maintenance on my Smoothwall Homebrew

Just doing some maintenance to my Smoothwall Homebrew build I built about 12 months ago, few issues with the operating system so I decided to do an entire reinstall of Smoothwall version 3.1. Check out the original build video here: http://pchelp.ricmedia.com/smoothwall-mini-itx-intel-build-icase/ cheers Richie … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, Firewalls & Security, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Latest News, Linux, Miscellaneous, Motherboards, Networking Tagged With: Custom Build, Home Brew Smoothy, Homebrew, Smoothwall, Smoothwall Express, Smoothy

Bittorrent download PC Mini-ITX, Intel CPU

December 9, 2014 By Richie Leave a Comment

Bittorrent Download PC Box Mini-ITX, Intel CPU

I really don't like having my expensive workstation PC running as a BitTorrent client overnight (or at any time) because let's face it, you are open to hackers for many hours at a time with open ports etc, so I decided to build a power efficient, Mini-ITX box dedicated to BitTorrent downloads, and the result is this video. All went well with some minor issues usual for this kind of build. I have listed all the parts I used with links to manufacturers below. Enjoy! BitTorrent Download Box … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, CPU's, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Motherboards, Network Adapters, Power Supplies, RAM Memory, Sound Cards, Windows, Windows 7 Tagged With: Bittorrent, BT, Custom Build, GA-J1900N-D3V, Gigabyte, Intel, Mini-ITX, Windows 7

Smoothwall Mini-ITX Intel Build with iCase

December 6, 2014 By Richie Leave a Comment

Smoothwall Mini-ITX custom build Firewall

OK time for some fun! I recently built a custom Smoothwall firewall that I had wanted to build for almost a year, so I finally bought the parts and went for it. Only problem is that the case I bought was for a "Thin" Mini-ITX motherboard, but the motherboard I bought was a standard Mini-ITX size, so I learned the hard way that there is a big difference between "Mini-ITX" and "Thin Mini-ITX". Not one to be beaten, I decided to "Mod" the case and make it accept the full size Mini-ITX board that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Builds, Cases, Firewalls & Security, Hardware, Linux, Motherboards, Network Adapters, Networking, Other OS Tagged With: Apple, Custom Build, firewall, iCase, Intel, Mini-ITX, security, Smoothwall

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